But gaming has been slowly rising to the challenge. For years, slurs have been thrown around as blanket insults during online gaming sessions, with gay video game streamers having been belittled, threatened and seeing their personal information released by the hateful section of gaming that is openly homophobic.
That’s something that has been said multiple times over the years, but it increasingly looks to be true, especially when considering the treatment of the LGBTQ community.
The gaming industry and fan community is at a crossroads.